High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edison`s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the 19th century. Although science fiction was not at the time thought of as a distinct literary genre, it was a very popular literary form, with almost every fiction magazine regularly publishing science fiction stories and novels. "Edison`s Conquest of Mars" was published in 1898 intended to be a sequel to "Fighters from Mars", an un-authorized and heavily altered version of H. G. Wells`s The War of the Worlds, but did not achieve the fame of its predecessor. Serviss wrote himself into the story as a professor that Edison consults.